Women’s health

Tracking your menstrual cycle offers important insights into your health for you and your doctor.

Cycles that are irregular, heavy cycles, changes in consistency or colour, all speak about your health.

Some people will experience mood swings, anxiety or depression in the days running up to and during their period along with other symptoms, such as cramp, fatigue and food cravings for example.

If you are recording this information, along with other lifestyle and medical information, you can become more aware of your own body and feel more in control. You can also help your doctor to be more informed when you are seeking advice.

Let’s See how Sarah a student is using Healthbit.

Sarah is a law student. For the last year she has started to experience particularly painful cramps and mood swings during some of her periods. Sometimes the pain has been so unbearable that she has had to miss lectures. Sarah’s doctor hasn’t been able to find a cause for her symptoms and has prescribed pain relief medications in the past.

Sarah wants to learn more about her menstrual cycle and perhaps uncover some of the factors that make her period and mood swings far worse. She also wants to be aware of when her periods are due to help her with her planning.

GOALS

Record menstrual cycle

Track mood and symptom severity

Record nutrition, exercise, activity and sleep

Understand correlations between her lifestyle and the severity of her symptoms

Learn from others with similar period symptoms to her

SarahStudent, 20

*Please note image is not of actual person.

How does Sarah use Healthbit?

Personal Health Record

Recording symptoms and medications that Sarah is using.

Trackers

Sarah uses the period tracker along with other useful trackers so that she can learn what factors may increase the severity of her symptoms.

Period

Mood

Body Measurements

Sleep

Nutrition

Spin Classes

Symptom severity

Connected devices and apps

Activity, heart rate and body composition tracking

Fitbit (sleep, steps and other activity)

(N.B. Over 200 devices and apps are compatible with Healthbit).

Trends

Discovering what factors potentially increase the severity of symptoms experienced by Sarah during her periods, such as sleep duration or nutrition.

Sharing Health Record

Sarah plans to share her health record with her GP after a few months so that she can help her GP gather a better picture of what’s going on and potentially offer some additional advice or suggest further tests.